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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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I'm afraid that's far from where the mythology ends. There were 14 presidents before Washington under the government of the Articles of Confederation, we don't talk about them because we might question circumstances under which that government was ended, which was basically a Federalist coup in response to an Agrarian Uprising and a cash grab by the rich. We don't talk about why Georgia was founded as a white's only state, why the Declaration of Independence came suspiciously on the heels of a British Court case bringing into question the legality of slavery in British territories, or how the concept of whiteness was linked with freedom of religion back in the days of Bacon's Rebellion. Seriously, I just deleted like a whole other paragraph so I wouldn't swamp ya.
might wanna start here. Real History: Myths of the Founding Fathers (FULL) Michael Parenti - YouTube
The 13th Amendment, still in effect (and therefore defended) is the "I'm not racist, but..." of the US constitution.